Apophis Deck #763796 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 51/100 (±8 · Confidence: Medium)

• Primary strategy: Midrange
• Secondary strategies: Control, Toolbox
• Format: ocg

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Legal.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Xyz and Fusion boss monsters (Divine Serpent Apophis x2, Pumpking the Great Ghost King x2, Anubis, Nibiru and Lord of the Heavenly Prison from the Main Deck) reached through the Apophis trap-set engine and the Call of the Haunted graveyard engine; Attrition through interaction: Dark Hole, Enemy Controller, Breakthrough Skill, Annihilate Retroglight and Verdict of Anubis
• Turn 1 (going first): Normal Summon or Set a Temple of the Kings or Apophis line, use Treasures of the Kings or The Man with the Mark to search, and hold up hand traps (Artifact Lancea, D.D. Crow, Nibiru, Skull Meister) and trap negation
• Turn 2 (going second): Hand traps first (up to 9 in the Main Deck, about 68 percent chance of at least one in a 6-card hand per the evidence), then Nibiru or Dark Hole to reset the board and rebuild through Call of the Haunted and Stare of the Snake Hair
• Recovery: Apophis the Serpent and Pumpking the King of Grave Ghosts recur Traps and Call of the Haunted from the GY; Ectoplasmic Fortification and Mulcharmy Purulia refill cards
• After siding: Not evaluable: the Side Deck is empty (0 cards), so there is no post-side plan

Why it scores here

The deck opens a functional plan reasonably often: the archetype-core group has about an 81 percent chance of at least one copy in a 5-card opening hand, and the searcher text group about 83 percent (Inferred, hypergeometric). Conversion is the weaker link. Five distinct Xyz/Fusion payoffs are split across two engines (Apophis traps and Call of the Haunted), and no recorded boards exist, so the ceiling and median are text-based inference only. Interaction is the strongest feature: nine hand traps, fourteen negation-text cards and twenty-four removal-text cards give the deck a layered answer suite that holds up after a disruption. Its closing power rests on 2400 to 3000 ATK boss monsters. The score is driven by consistency, median output and interaction taken together as a system; it is not an average of individual card scores. Popularity did not earn points: usage stats show only 53 percent of the archetype core present, and the exact-name archetype purity is 5.7 percent. The deck has no Side Deck, which caps the score, and the 55-card Main Deck with 27 distinct cards lowers efficiency. Meta Power is null because no dated metagame sample was supplied.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange (D13 dropped and weights re-normalized over 95, since there is no meta sample). Structural ≈ 57, Going First ≈ 60, Going Second ≈ 63, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 50. Modifiers: no side deck (-3); engine conflict (-2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers (Meta provisional; Structural = 5450/95 = 57.4)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.81 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ — (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Layered interaction: nine hand traps, fourteen negation-text cards and twenty-four removal-text cards
• Two engines with independent starters (Apophis traps and Call of the Haunted) give redundancy
• Boss monsters at 2400 to 3000 ATK
• Legal list with full copy and size compliance

Weaknesses

• No Side Deck, so no post-side plan
• Low archetype purity (5.7 percent) and a wide spread of unrelated Xyz/Fusion payoffs
• 55-card Main Deck with 27 distinct cards is bloated
• No recorded boards, so combo conversion is unmeasured

Critical choke points

• Apophis trap-set starters and Treasures of the Kings are needed to reach the Apophis Fusion/Trap payoffs
• Call of the Haunted is only 2 copies, while the Stare and Pumpking searches depend on it
• Hand traps are the only answer to an early board when a 5-card hand has none

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal status: 55 Main, 15 Extra, 0 Side within the OCG size rules; no copy-limit violations; Card text and stats for all 27 distinct Main Deck cards and 13 distinct Extra Deck cards; Role-tag counts: hand_trap 9, searcher_text 16, negation_text 14, removal_text 24; Usage: archetype core 53.3 percent present
• Inferred: Starter probabilities: 0.81 for the archetype-core group and 0.83 for searchers in a 5-card hand; Hand-trap probability of 0.68 in a 6-card hand going second; Interaction quality and resilience from card text
• Provisional: Meta Power (null) and matchup fit (D13), with no dated metagame sample
• Data gaps: no combos supplied: combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference no tournament link: archetype meta-share and per-pilot record absent no win-rate telemetry for going-first, going-second, matchup or brick/starter rates no Side Deck, so post-side performance cannot be assessed Meta Power is provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied